Jangled Lying

Jangled Lying

Inured:

To accept something that is inferior
only to back former false claims is tantamount to displacing loyalty to party
over nation. That is the crux of the GOPs drive to erase Obama’s signature
legislation in healthcare and to Hades to the American public. Whether it is
the GOP House majority’s ‘American Healthcare Act’ (AHCA) or the GOP Senate majority’s
‘Better Healthcare Reconciliation Act’ (BHRA) plan, neither of them are better
than the ACA; in fact they’re much worse.

The thing is...Republican congressmen
remained too busy obstructing and repealing Obamacare (ACA) and, although they
gave hints of a plan in place by waving blank sheets of paper, while current
House Speaker, Paul Ryan (R-WI) kept falsely insisting a replacement to the ACA
was at hand, they never gave one briefing concerning their alternate for seven
years. In fact, House Republicans kept it in secret lock down until finally a
cast of a few Ryan handpicked Republicans hastily put a healthcare bill plan
piecemealed together behind closed doors within the closing weeks. The whole
process stunk and the outcome stunk.

This new ‘American Healthcare Act’
(AHCA) was so bad; it would not pass a House vote even with Republicans holding
a solid majority. American folks lashed out against it so strongly that
Republican congressmen began cancelling town hall meetings with their
constituents. So, to appease the extreme right membership of the House, Ryan
revised and tweaked it enough to make it even worse. Indeed the tweak worked as
some Tea Party congressional members hopped aboard and it passed by a mere five
votes...217 to 212. I called this AHCA the Trumyancare bill in rhyming it with
onion...yum-yum eat ‘em up.

After Trump led the House Republican
parade and gathering on the White House lawns to issue proclamations of
adulation for the GOP success in finally passing an inferior bill, it was now
the GOP Senate’s turn to come up with their version. So, for their final version,
after weeks of behind closed door meetings consisting of only thirteen
Republican white male senators and tons of health insurer lobbyists, they came
up with an even worse version to healthcare going by the name of ‘Better
Healthcare Reconciliation Act’ (BHRA). Since Senate Majority Leader, Mitch
McConnell was in charge of all the secrecy surrounding the senate version I
call the BHRA the McRumpyancare as analogous to cheap McDonalds’ burgers and
fries...more scummy yummy for the tummy.

Now, McConnell, during the secretive
Republican collusion (in which even most GOP senators weren’t privy to) in
piecing together a plan, incessantly promised there would be a senate vote
before the July 4th recess. He felt assured ya know that the bill
would be passed since his reconciliation had brought the passing of the bill
down to a 50 majority, deleting the original 60 vote senate requirement. With
50 GOP senatorial votes, then Vice-President Pence could waltz into the senate
chamber and vote to give the majority 51st deciding vote. Well, as
it turns out, McConnell couldn’t even reach the 50 vote threshold. So now, he
defers the vote to commence after the recess hoping that a couple of stray
Republicans might come on board once a tweaked amendment or two will coerce
them. Pretty much the same predicament Ryan had over at the House.

Unfortunately though, what McConnell did
not want is for the vote to go beyond the recess. This gives the American
public more time to review the Republican version of healthcare, which he knows
they won’t like and he does not want his GOP senators having to face the wrath
of any constituent meetings that might be held over the recess.

Through recent survey polling, it shows
just how much Americans don’t like the Republican versions of healthcare. Since
Republicans have a disdain for survey results that don’t agree with their
rhetoric, I won’t go into detail on the GOP healthcare plan favorability of the
‘Quinnipiac’ result of 58% oppose – 16%, or the ‘Suffolk/USA Today’ result of
45% oppose – 12% support, or the ‘NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist’ result of 55% oppose
– 17% support. Instead I’ll dwell a bit on the right-wingers’ cherished ‘Fox
News’ result.

The ‘Fox News’ polling result is pretty
much the same as the others with 54% opposing – 27% supporting. So, I ask the
right-winger...is ‘Fox News’ ‘fake news’ as well? While their own polling shows
the unpopularity of the GOPs version of healthcare, ‘Fox News’ nonetheless will
still push it.

Going back to McConnell, he’s indeed in
devious mode and does not want Democrats involved to be included in nonpartisan
negotiations. Why ol’ Turtle Face, Mitch is even threatening Republicans, their
staffers and even Trump that if, God forbid, the GOP vote still comes up short,
Republicans will have to come to the dire conclusion that they will have to
negotiate with Democrats.

McConnell is also using high handed
bribery by using $188 billion taxpayer dollars to dole out to any Republicans
still insisting their hesitant in voting yes. The $188 billion comes from the
expense of twenty-two million American folks losing their healthcare. McConnell
wants to use that as slush money in side deals and private deals to persuade
Republican senators to cast a yea vote by telling them they can use this money
on a carrot stick for whatever they want. Concerning McConnell’s maneuver, one
White House official stated, “There’s no
one-size-fits all to getting these people on board. Each one of them wants
different things and we have to figure out if there is a path.” It’s kind
of like a smorgasbord ‘green’ salad menu.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), is one of the
conservative holdouts. He would like a total repeal of Obamacare. If he gets
assurances that more will be chipped away, he’ll gladly accept the money for
his yes vote. But, if he feels enough votes may not occur, he’ll vote no
insisting he is the conservative rightwing savior opposing another healthcare
bill disguised merely as a weaker version of Obamacare. Cruz is an opportunist
in every sense of carpetbagger terms.

Oh, the lying to push the Republican
healthcare agenda. From White House administrators like ‘Human Health and
Services’ (HHS), Tom Price to Republican politicians and even Trump himself,
the GOP has been lying to the American public to push through their anti-health
agenda.

First off, Dan Heyman, a reporter for,
‘Public News Services’ was arrested in West Virginia for asking Price a simple
healthcare question. His mistake was that he did it in a public square. The
question Heyman asked was whether domestic violence is classed as a “pre-existing condition” under the health
care bill recently passed in the House. This was asked since the House passed
their bill eliminating proper coverage for pre-existing conditions. For doing
his job and asking about ending the ban on discriminating against those with
pre-existing conditions, Heyman was arrested and charged with some obnoxious
made-up complaint of, “willful disruption
of governmental processes.”

Anyway, on 06/25/2017, Price went on CNN’s
‘State of the Union’ stating, “What — and
what I’m telling you is that the system, the plan that we have, would put in
place would not allow individuals to fall through the cracks, would not — we
would not pull the rug out from under anybody. We would not have individuals
lose coverage that they want for themselves and for their family.” Price flat out lied. The GOP Medicaid cuts
will be pulling the rug out from under at least 15 million people by next year alone
and at least another 9 million will lose their coverage if Republicans cut or
get rid of the subsidies.

Kellyanne Conway on ABCs 06/25/2017
‘This Week’ airing, actually persisted in stating Medicaid cuts do not exist in
the Republican healthcare plans. She emphatically stated to the show’s host,
George Stephanopoulos, “These are not
cuts to Medicaid, George.”

Over on CBSs 06/25/2017 ‘Face the
Nation’ show, Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) chimed in with Conway when he
proclaimed to John Dickerson, “The Senate
bill will codify and make permanent the Medicaid expansion. No one loses
coverage.”

Republicans cannot defend their health
plans, so are reduced to lying about it. Fact is, folks will lose healthcare
coverage for the senate bill is readied to cut more than a trillion dollars
from Medicaid simply to gain tax cuts for the rich; as Warren Buffet more
appropriately calls the GOP plan, ‘Relief for the Rich Act’.

As far as Trump goes in spreading the
lies, here are a few:

“We
will repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare. You will be able to choose your
own doctor again.” Trump, 07/21/2016 Republican National Convention in
Cleveland, Ohio.

Ever since employer based insurance
plans, doctor switching has been around long before Obamacare. As insurers are
still in charge of healthcare, Obamacare did not address this issue, but
neither would either GOP plan.

“We
will create quality, reliable, affordable health care in a free market where
parents can make the health care decisions that they really want to make for
their families. It will be a much better health care at a much less expensive
cost.” Trump, 11/01/2016 Valley
Forge, Pennsylvania.

In reality, under Obamacare annual
premium increases have been the slowest in decades. As compared, both the House
and Senate healthcare versions lead to skyrocketing increases and won’t compete
with Obamacare in keeping deductibles down. Also, in eliminating essential
Obamacare benefits lowers the overall quality of healthcare policies and prices
pre-existing conditions as untenable.

“Require
price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and
healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able
to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other
medical-related procedure.” — Trump campaign website.

Neither Republican bill addresses this
with no mention whatsoever of any control of medical provider costs.

“You're
going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is
going to be so easy.” Trump, 10/25/2016, Sanford, Florida rally.

“Some
of the Fake News Media likes to say that I am not totally engaged in
healthcare. Wrong, I know the subject well & want victory for U.S.”
06/28/2017 Trump tweet

On a 06/27/2017 White House meeting with
all the Republican senators, a reporter asked Trump about Medicaid in the
senate bill. In all of his vast knowledge his reply was, “I think the senate bill is going to be great.” I mean how
generalized can a reply be?

In February of 2016, Trump told ‘Fox
News’, Sean Hannity when it comes to his employees, “I treat them really good with health care. It's a very important thing.”

In October 2016 at a Doral, Florida
resort he claimed, “All of my employees
are having tremendous problems with Obamacare.” So, which one is it?

At a time when economic change is making
life more difficult for all but the relatively well-to- do, denying people
access to health insurance is a giant step in the wrong direction.

With six Nobel Prize winners in the mix,
forty economist professionals wiped the GOP lying slate clean in a letter
addressed to, McConnell. In the nonpartisan letter, it stated:

“The
Senate bill will expose millions to increased out-of-pocket health care costs.
It would base tax credits on a plan with greatly increased cost sharing and
deductibles that could run to $12,000 per family or more. Far from improving
Obamacare, the Senate bill would reduce assistance for the millions of people
who buy coverage through the state and federal marketplaces. Many now eligible
for tax credits would be denied them entirely. States would be allowed to opt
out of regulations that allow less healthy people to buy insurance at
reasonable rates. The
savings from slashing health subsidies and coverage would go largely to
bestowing tax cuts on upper-income tax filers. The richest 0.1 percent of tax
filers would receive tax cuts averaging over $200,000 per return. We call on
Congress to work on legislation to improve the health delivery system, in
general, and The Affordable Care Act, in particular. The goal should be to hold
down health costs and increase access to affordable, quality health coverage
for all. Unfortunately, the Better Care Reconciliation Act threatens reduced
coverage and higher costs for those who continue to have it.”

On top of all this as explained earlier,
McConnell who threatened Republican politicians they might have to do the
unthinkable and work with Democrats in nonpartisan fashion if their atrocious
healthcare bill isn’t passed, said on the senate floor, “I regret that our Democratic friends made clear early on they did not
want to work with us.”

Right, McConnell made sure there was to
be no public hearings, no press conferences, no Democrat invitations but secret
selected Republican hearings composed of a baker’s dozen 13 white male senators,
yeah, it is truly regrettable.

On Wisconsin’s 06/29/2017 ‘Dan
O’Donnell’ radio show, Paul Ryan whinnied, “Let’s
all fight with respect and civility for the beliefs and causes we believe in,
but let’s be civil with one another… and accusing people who are trying to
solve a health care problem of trying to kill people is not having a civil
debate.”

Ryan’s doing his best to cover the
Republican efforts in getting 22-23 million folks off of healthcare. Some of
those, without medical treatment are going to die. Apparently he feels that’s
not too big a deal, but I query, why with his civil self, did he cheer on his
fellow Republicans false charges of Obamacare as death panels for the elderly?

Ryan was grilled by of all people,
Tucker Carlson of ‘Fox News’. Ryan was blindsided from the normally cordial
Carlson to anything Republican. When discussing healthcare Carlson dropped this
into Ryan’s cold loins...

“But
also I mean you have the overview here is that the all the wealth basically in
the last years is stuck to the top end. That's one of the reasons we've had all
this political turmoil as you know. And so kind of a hard sell to say yeah
we're going to repeal Obamacare, but we're going to send more money to people
who've already gotten the richest over the last ten years I mean that's what
this does no? I'm not leftist. It's just that's true.”

Ryan was speechless, as the deer caught
frozen in the headlights. He simply gave a shrugged shoulder look away smirk
smile as if saying, “So!”

All for the money, the vulnerable are
sacrificed to make the rich richer in this healthcare bill. It is the rollout
for the GOP’s tax overhaul giving a prelude in who wins when it comes to
average American Jack and Jill versus the rich. These two Republican healthcare
bills do not save taxpayer dollars, for it merely rolls it over to the rich. To
validate this I give you two examples.

The Koch brothers and their networks are
getting antsy with Republicans on their failure as a majority to get their
healthcare bill with the rich tax breaks passed. One of the Koch brothers’ main
missions was to get Obamacare repealed to gut the Medicaid expansion regaining
more wealth from the rich tax break afforded by Republican policy.

At a weekend 400 member donor gathering
this month in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Koch’s ‘Americans for Prosperity’
president, Timothy Phillips said concerning the lack of Republican success in
repealing Obamacare, “Perhaps we were
naïve in thinking a full repeal vote would happen. This has been humbling for
us.”

The point from all the above is that
there is no process to coming up with a deserving Republican healthcare plan.
It’s a secretive interred partisan plan that has no merit in even coming close
to what healthcare should be for American citizens. Switching quality
healthcare for the American public to give the rich tax cuts is an assault to
all commoner Americans. Disease does not care who is Republican or not; it will
attack all. Accidents are not prejudice; it will occur on both sides of the
political aisle, no matter whether you voted for Hillary or Trump. Opioid
addiction affects anyone, no matter the color, creed or social standing. In
turn it affects any community negatively.

Point blank though, these Republican
healthcare bills will have fellow Americans saying goodbye with their last
farewells. It will affect all personally, whether it is a friend, a relative or
you individually. It is not healthcare...it is the first stage of Republican
tax reform, in the dismantling of healthcare to further empower the richest of
the land at the expense of those afflicted, injured, diseased and addicted.

Devious
Acts:

Just within a month, Trump has done some
fairly insidious acts. Here are a few.

Towards the end of May while he was
traveling the world, conveniently Trump came out with his budget proposal and
it is brutal to those Americans that are poor or disabled. You can forget
Trump’s campaign promises to keep Social Security advantages intact, for in his
budget, it entails significant cuts to ‘Social Security Disability Insurance’
(SSDI) and ‘Supplemental Security Income’ (SSI), which benefit disabled and
low-income Americans. In fact, cuts to SSI would be so deep that the savings
would be comparable to if the program were converted into a block grant. Block
grants are Republican strategies where the federal government doles out control
of tax dollars to state governments but with annual caps. Once the cap ceiling
is reached, no more federal funding.

Social programs for the littlest
Americans (children) will have cuts as well. ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program’ (SNAP) will have cuts geared towards hungry families while on his wish
list, the ‘Children’s Health Insurance Program’ (CHIP) is to take a defunding
hit as well. Along with completely ending financial aid to poor college
students, all told, Trump is taking away $1.7 trillion from these supplemental
programs.

Trump’s comment on his budget is, “This budget’s defining ambition is to unleash
the dreams of the American people.” Question is...what dreams? In adding another
10% to the federal debt for the military that already takes up 58% of the
federal budget, Trump is glorifying a warlord mentality on the back of poorer
Americans.

Trump’s anti-immigrant laws are
primarily directed at skin of brown tone. Under Trump’s stepped-up immigration
laws, anyone who evaded a border inspection or overstayed a visa could be
charged with a misdemeanor or fraud and face deportation. Arrests are way up on
Latinos in the U.S. and for sure, has discouraged their movement into and in
the states. End results, U.S. farmers and ranchers have no one to hire as their
labor pool has drastically shrunk.

According to chief strategy officer at ‘Cattle
Empire’ the country’s fifth-largest feed yard, Trisha Priest, 86% of Cattle
Empire’s work force is Latino simply because Americans will not take on jobs
offered by the company. Ms. Priest elaborates, “The threat of deportation and the potential loss of our workforce has
been very terrifying for all of us businesses here.” The company is located
in Trump friendly Kansas. I suppose the old adage, ‘ya get what ya paid for’
applies here.

The ‘American Farm Bureau Federation’
reports, “Where American workers are
unwilling or unavailable, workers from other countries have stepped in.”
The bureau, even though it realizes the Trump administration is not receptive,
are pushing for Latinos who have worked in the industry for a set period of
time be permitted permanent legal status.

It is not only in the agricultural end,
as the restaurant, hospitality and construction industries are complaining
about shrinking labor pools. These industries are also requesting that the
Trump administration make working in the U.S. more obliging for the
undocumented labor force they rely on.

Trump personally knows nothing about
these laws, it is his Republican officials and lobbyists that are making
policy; Trump merely signs them. For instance, a law permanently banning
immigrants from welfare and other benefits was passed and put into law in 1996.
Today Trump promises to ban immigrants from welfare programs for at least five
years...redundant ignorance...

On June, 09 in a joint press conference between
Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis and Trump, ABCs, Jon Karl asked Trump about
James Comey’s testimony where Trump was framing Comey as a liar under oath.
Karl then asked Trump, “So he said those
things under oath, would you be willing to speak under oath to give your
version of those events?” Trump’s reply, “One-hundred percent!”

To no one’s surprise though, on June 12,
the White House announced that Trump under no circumstances would be testifying
whether under oath or not. What credibility and sound security we have in this
president.

With Eric Trump’s charity for the
children cancer patients of St. Jude’s Hospital, Donald Trump shifted donated
money into his businesses; a total thus far of $1.2 million. Once this scam was
exposed Eric hopped on over to ‘Fox News’ 06/07/2017 Sean Hannity airing and proclaimed
that liberal folks criticizing it are “not
even people.” Actually, one would, in common sense fashion, feel that those
taking money away from sick children to pad their own pockets are more likely
the ones less than human. Of course, Trump did this with his own ‘Trump
Foundation’ charity when he skimmed donations from it to pay for portraits of
him and for his lawsuit legal fees.

On June 19, the Trump administration
blacked out the White House daily press conference briefing insisting on no
video or audio to be recorded. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment
and suppression of information.

Although this past January, Trump made a
promise to the American people that he would donate his hotel profits from
foreign governments to the U.S. treasury, currently he hasn’t even donated a
penny, nor will he provide a copy of his policy to do so or at least explain
how they will separate foreign government profits from other profits.

Last week at his Washington D.C. Trump
hotel, Trump held a secretive campaign fundraiser with 300 participants paying
$35,000.00 per head to attend. He gained $10 million in funding, but also
profited in taxpayer dollars funding the event at his hotel, while profiting
further in the attendees staying at his hotel. After the story broke, but of
course Trump whined that the ‘fake news’ was conspiring against him. For sure,
this is in direct violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.

According to NPR stats, of Trump’s
political activities, $1.00 out of every $10.00 that went into his presidential
campaign went back to Trump, while $1.00 out of every $5.00 Trump donated found
its way back to Trump brands and properties.

As of late with the ongoing Russian
investigation, it’s funny how all of a sudden there are a slew of lawyers
joining the White House administration. This doesn’t include officials already
in place that are lawyers such as Mike Pence and Pete Sessions. What makes it
even more amazing is that in a Trump tweet, he claimed that the Russian deal is
all a Democrat hoax; so why all the influx of lawyering? Current White house
lawyers are even hiring their own lawyers. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael
Cohen has hired attorney, Stephen Ryan to represent him.

Criminal lawyer, Chuck Cooper has been
hired by Sessions. Now, let me ask ya, Sessions supposedly holds the highest
lawyer office in the land as attorney general, so what does that make Cooper?
Another side note on Cooper is that, although he lost, he defended California’s
homophobic Proposition 8 during its Supreme Court trial. What’s so unusual,
while at the same time he was defending Prop 8, he was planning his
stepdaughter’s same-sex wedding.

There are some thirty-one personal and
defense lawyers now in the White House. The newest one on Trump’s personal
fielded little army of lawyers is, Jay Sekulow. What a scumbag this guy is. Sekulow
moonlights as a religious right attorney. He has manipulated two nonprofits
known as, ‘Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism’ (CASE) and the ‘American
Center for Law and Justice’ (ACLJ) to steer $60 million to members of his
family and businesses. These are donations primarily from the elderly poor and
lonely.

On normally friendly ‘Fox News’ on his
debut to speak on behalf of the president, Sekulow got grilled by Chris
Wallace. See the video below, for it’s worth it.

As the Russian investigation
intensifies, Vice-president Mike Pence with campaign funds has hired a defense
lawyer. In Dominoes Park in Miami, Florida, when asked by a press pool about
the hiring, Pence retorted, “It’s very
routine. Very routine.” Oh, is it? Former vice-president, Joe Biden
certainly never hired a criminal lawyer. In fact going all the way back to the
Carter years, there has been only one vice-president to hire a criminal lawyer
and that was Dick Cheney.

On June 22 at an Iowan campaign rally,
Trump defended his filling the swamp instead of his promised drainage by
admitting, “I love all people, rich or
poor. But in those particular positions I just don’t want a poor person. Does
that make sense?” Sean Hannity later defended Trump’s remark on his show
stating, “I’ve never been hired by a poor
person.” Wealthy or in poverty is not an adequate sign of intelligence. I
just suppose it’s quite clear now the distinction between classes is loud and
clear under Trumpism.

Trump was called out by ‘Time Magazine’
on June 27 to remove the ‘fake news’ headlines of the magazine’s covers Trump
has plastered over his golfing club’s walls. The fake Time covers feature a
Trump photo with stupendous headlines falsely claiming exaggerated successes.
The magazine has asked for the bogus covers to be taken down, but as yet has
received no response.

The covers are on at least eight of
Trump’s properties’ walls, but no one is explaining why. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
in a press briefing wouldn’t explain why, but did follow up in an e-mail, “We couldn’t comment on the decor at Trump
Golf clubs one way or another.”

I won’t rehash all the Russian/Trump
connections, but the latest is that intelligence investigators have revealed Russian
hackers were caught discussing how to get hacked Clinton emails to Mike Flynn
of the Trump campaign, which would be proof that Trump colluded with Russia
during the 2016 election.

A June 29 ‘Wall Street Journal’ article
as well, reported that a top GOP operative, Peter W. Smith was also involved.
In the article the paper reported, “Emails
written by Mr. Smith and one of his associates show that his small group
considered Mr. Flynn and his consulting company, Flynn Intel Group, to be
allies in their quest.” The puzzle pieces that fit are being put in place.

In summation: evidence is now there and
mounting that individuals connected to the Trump campaign were seeking stolen
emails from Russian hackers and evidence that Russian hackers were trying to
provide them to a top Trump adviser. Whether Trump was ignorant of this fact or
knew of it, both ways are damming.

Days before Independence Day, it appears
Trump’s federal government of forcing itself upon states’ rights is melting. Funny
this, states’ rights has always been a
rallying cry for Republicans except when a Republican president is in power.

What I’m discussing here, is Trump’s
self-devised and state-imposed commission led by, Kansas Secretary of State
Kris Kobach to collect voter data from all the states. This commission was
borne out of the bogus Trump claim that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote
because of people voting illegally.

As it turns out, so far, twenty-four
states are not cooperating with the mandate and will not turn over their
sensitive and personal voting data and guess what...they’re not all Democrat
states. Of the trump demands for states to hand over voter names, Social
Security numbers, addresses and birthdates, Mississippi Secretary of State
Delbert Hosemann has refused the order emphatically stating, “They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and
Mississippi is a great state to launch from.”

The twenty-four states that are thus far
not cooperating are in the tweet below:

With Trump, I don’t quite know whether
it’s a hang-up or an infatuation when it comes to blood and women. In his tweet
below, it’s no surprise but merely a continuation of the indignity and shame
he’s casting upon each and every American. Trump’s tweet was in retaliation for
Mika Brezinski saying on the MSNBC, ‘Morning Joe’ show in reference to Trump, “Let’s say someone came into NBC and took
over NBC, and started tweeting wildly about people’s appearances, bullying
people, talking about people in the competition, lying every day, undermining
his managers, throwing them under the (bus) — that person would be thrown out.
It’s just not normal behavior. In fact, there would be concerns that the person
who runs the company is out of his mind.”

Whether his bucket claim of never
watching the morning show holds water or not, Trump’s retaliatory tweet came
minutes after she said it. His bleeding and facelift add is wholly a made-up
lie, but if he’s so concerned about cosmetic surgery, he might want to check
out a few of the Trump women.

This tweet only shows how shallow in
temperance and character Trump is. What a president the U.S.A. has. So
thin-skinned, he can’t even handle a petty tweet. Imagine how the rightwing
would act if Obama had responded in just a minutia microcosm amount in the same
way Trump did. They would’ve torn into him. But of all the bogus dirty and
filthy things they said about Obama, as a leader, as a man of wisdom, he
allowed it all to simply roll off of his shoulders.

Shame on the GOP politician...yes they commented
on Trump’s Mika tweet saying it “bothered”
them that they were “agitated” by it
and it was “unnecessary,” but then go
right back to his side and fall back in line...what cowardice. They knew they
had to say something to appease the public, but then in a flash go back to the carrot-head
to do his bidding. Stand-up to him for gosh sake!

From wishbone to jawbone, but absent of
backbone; where is the mustered courage by any Republican to stand up to Trump
and say, ‘enough is enough.’ Trump should be scolded then scorned. He should be
specifically confronted and told to quit acting the baby and become a tad bit
more mature, if not more presidential. Where is the ethics in today’s
Republican arena? If Trump is verbally “attacked
he will punch back ten times more,” my aspirin. As my wife expresses, Trump’s
not punching harder, he’s punching lower.

Below is a list of the seven sailors
killed while serving their country after their ship the USS Fitzgerald collided
with a merchant ship four times the size off the coast of the Sea of Japan.

Unfortunately, this current president
had nothing to neither say or do concerning these fallen naval men, nor
acknowledge publicly our nation’s loss.

Whether it’s from Canada or through
Europe to Australia, the global map is taking note of Trump’s antics. Leaving
the Paris Climate Agreement has really set back America’s lead on the world
stage and has given allies the will to go do it on their own without the U.S.
We’ll begin ending this segment with a video by former Mexican president,
Vicente Fox. It’s a bit humorous but somber at the same time.

Trump over nation is obsessed with erasing
anything Obama achieved. You see it in his executive orders rescinding Obama’s
environmental and financial protections, in repealing Obamacare with inferior
legislation and in reintroducing the wealthy tax breaks. Just today this June
30, Trump told U.S. Republican senators to repeal Obamacare immediately if they
cannot agree on a new health-care plan to take its place. This would be
catastrophic to folks depending on Obamacare. He’s also reversed Obama’s Cuban
policy, so is now making it harder for families to reunite.

Trump indeed is a weak president and
what makes that worse is that even with frailties in mind and character, an
impuissant U.S. president still wields a lot of authority. Trump fights for
Trump ignoring obligations to speak on behalf of the nation. In fact, he’s
using the highest power of the globe to gloat about himself, enrich himself and
mock anyone whom he feels steps in his way. Trump is merely a manipulator of
his own worst instincts.

As Far as why the Republican Party
overall is no longer in existence, much less controlling the government that
they can’t even legislate out of a cardboard box, is a quandary. Oh yeah, need
I be reminded of the lying rhetoric, fundamentalist Christian collusion with
white nationalism, voter ID suppression laws, scapegoating crusades, ‘Citizens
United’ and an ill-informed base.

A
Bid Adieu:

Below is a true contrast in how
democracy works in Republican efforts versus Democrat efforts.

The first are scenes from a Mitch
McConnell command for capital police officers to arrest the handicapped in the
hallways protesting the repeal of Obamacare that they depend on. I must include
though, Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) once asked if he wanted protesters near his
office doorway removed by police force, he declined the offer. The second set
of scenes is how Democrats work.

Then more Democrats along with passersby join in as if it was
a remake of an ancient Greek Athenian meeting where Democracy was first born.

These step scenes were captured by, Ben
Winkler of ‘MoveOn.org’ as he was walking through the capitol building grounds
on a June 26 evening. The scenes happened spontaneously and luckily, Winkler
happened to be walking by at the right moment to catch it. Amazing grace...

About Me

Entered the world as Bruce John Anderson. With a dad as Bruce and two John dangrads (grandpas), grandma thought it too confusing, hence the nickname B.J. I've had ever since I was six months old; yet some folks refer to me as simply...The Beej.

Born in Stephenville, Texas on the Sunday morn of 11/09/52 and while growing up in the Fort Worth area, I have a West Texas flair about perception in life. Currently, I’m a misplaced Texan residing in NW Pa. and that is OK, for one Texan is about equal odds to one Yankee state. This ol' Texan does indeed love the snow up here. Snow is about the only thing I know of that can even make a junkyard look pretty.

Graduated: Trinity HS (Euless, TX) in ‘71 and later from The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in ‘84 with a Bachelors in geology.

Had my first set of children Amber (1971) & Jason (1974) as a young man and my second set Claire (2003) & Paige (2005) I had as an old man. Am married to sweetness in Veronica my wife.

I extol the science disciplines working as a microbiologist, geophysicist, chemist & geologist.

Work has taken me into 39 countries. It’s amazing witnessing firsthand the varying cultures and environs, but prefer the myriad similarities; the old man sitting on a tree stump in front of his central Sudan mud hut was the same old man sitting in his favorite rocker on a West Texas front porch; both just sitting back watching the world go by while pondering it all.

My motto in life is don't take it so seriously, it's not like it's permanent.